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Case 3

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Call Number: KC AV 26

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Harvey Bayless interview, June 23, 2011

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Scope and Contents After completing a two-year program in radio technology at Wilberforce University and passing a civil service exam, Major Bayless, a native of Ohio, began his career in radio communications, at the age of 18, as a civilian employee of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He provides a brief background on his work for the Corps and recalls experiencing a violent physical enforcement of the color line on a Greyhound bus when the Corps sent him to Lexington, Kentucky. Drafted in 1943, he recounts...
Dates: June 23, 2011